My first blurb! #Nabokov

Today is #Bloomsday, the annual celebration of James Joyce. Here's Anthony Burgess talking about the revered Ulysses author. This audio excerpt was originally released to mark the new Galileo Publishers edition of Burgess's Joyce biography Here Comes Everybody.

Couple of treats for getting to the end of term 🥃🖋️

Getting our floors relevelled and unearthed a few old items while clearing out some of the rubble between the joists - an old matchbox, half of an old smoking pipe, a tramway ticket, and a postcard for a 'window cleaner and carpet beater' #panningforold #glasgow #tenement

MONDAY MORNING KARMA weary of its buzzing, he smashed up his alarm, with his cherished bedside copy of The Little Book of Calm

I, for one, welcome our new animal overlords.

Thank you for agreeing to speak at our 'posthumanism and the anthropocene' conference. Could you let us know the title of your talk, please? Me:

Because he's on a secondment...

Still reckon this is the greatest written paragraph ever put to paper…

A rare day yesterday at the #worldssmallestwhiskybar! Thanks to Cask 88 for having us. A limerick for the occasion: There once was a bijou box Constructed for Embra's cops. But its recent incarnation, For public inebriation, Will surely be more fabled than Aesop...

This line is so memorable for a reason. It's a perfect use of antimetabole: the repetition of a phrase in successive clauses, but with its word order reversed. Here are 8 more rhetorical devices to make your writing or speaking more memorable:

1960s bob dylan: percy shelley plays his crossword/ hunched on the mezzanine/ while the ghost of mary magdalene/ makes love to her benzedrine 2020s bob dylan: i eat black-eyed peas/ and i eat fried okra/ i'm a wicked cross/ between john rambo and cobra

James Austin Johnson sings “Jingle Bells” as Bob Dylan through the decades. #FallonTonight

In the early 1990s a stonemason secretly carved a Xenomorph from the Alien films onto a 700 year old church in Scotland during restoration work. But it's not out of place. Because Medieval gargoyles were even stranger (and funnier) than this...

Just incredible... Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert open.spotify.com/album/4OnjUMJX…

The stakes have never been higher as Scotland's colleges face disaster scotsman.com/news/opinion/t…

This is what happens when you don’t fund the humanities

Taking a break after 500 words of terrible writing

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.